LOOK: Duterte Finally Meets Obama. Find Out?

Barack Obama met quickly with Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday, their two governments said, days after the torch leader marked the US president a “child of a prostitute”.

The experience occurred just before a supper amid a summit of territorial pioneers in Laos, authorities showed.
“They met at the holding room and they were the last people to leave the holding room. I can’t say how long they met,” Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay, travelling with Duterte, told reporters awhile later.

“I’m extremely glad that it happened.”

In a succinct proclamation, the White House said just that “Obama had a brief talk with President Duterte before the ASEAN Gala Dinner in the pioneers’ hold space.”

“The trade comprised of merriments between the two.”

Obama drop Tuesday’s arranged meeting with Duterte on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations-facilitated summit after the famously corrosive tongued Philippine president propelled a flood of put-down the earlier day.

His upheaval was incited by US declarations that Obama wanted to raise the issue of Duterte’s war on illegal drugs that has asserted 3,000 lives in a little more than two months.

“You must be respectful. Do not just throw away questions and statements. Son of a whore, I will curse you in that forum,” Duterte told reporters when asked about his message for Obama.

“We will be wallowing in the mud like pigs if you do that to me.”

Obama at first reacted by calling Duterte a “bright person”, however then assembled off the conference after the global media reported intensely on the issue.

The scorn was a fabulous misfortune for relations between the United States and Philippines, which are long-term associates and are bound by a common resistance arrangement to help each other in times of war.

The two countries also appeared to clash over the meaning of satellite imagery showing Chinese activity on a disputed reef off the coast of the Philippines.

Discharging the pictures Duterte’s legislature said they had proof China was finding a way to start digging – a noteworthy heightening.

The White House attempted to play down the case, saying it trusted Chinese action in the region was at the same level as earlier months.

Yasay looked to describe Wednesday’s meeting as confirmation the partnership was sufficiently solid to withstand such hiccups.

“It all springs from the fact that the relationship between the Philippines and the United States is firm, very strong,” Yasay said.

In any case, Duterte’s office prior Wednesday discharged an announcement saying he would sit alongside Obama at the occasion supper.

“The media from all over the world, including from the Philippines, are up in excitement as each await the event where the two leaders will possibly say something positive,” the statement from the presidential palace said.